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The FBI's release of parts of its investigations manual has raised concern among civil liberties and Muslim groups.
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“We think it’s an unconstitutional claim of authority to investigate people not even suspected of wrongdoing,” said Mike German, a former FBI agent who now studies such issues for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said his agency “works on a daily basis to ensure that investigations are conducted in a manner that protects the civil liberties and privacy of Americans. As the attorney general has stated previously, we will closely monitor the implementation of the FBI guidelines to see how well they work in operation and will revisit them if changes or refinements are necessary.”

Obama administration officials have not explicitly endorsed the guidelines, but during his confirmation hearings as assistant attorney general for national security, David Kris said he saw “positive developments” in aspects of the guidelines, which emphasize a more proactive role for the FBI that does not solely involve investigating crimes.

An FBI spokesman, Paul Bresson, said “an internal FBI group of field and headquarters representatives” is conducting a review of the guidelines.

But what Kris sees as an advantage, others see as worrisome.

“You had criminal matters on the one hand and terrorism matters on the other. Now, you have combined the two authorities but taken the least civil-liberties-friendly aspects of both and merged them,” said John Verdi of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “It increases the likelihood that the federal government will engage in pervasive mass surveillance.”

Sobel said he’d like to see the Obama administration revise the manual, which was issued last December and is based on more general guidance from then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

“I’d like to see us have the issuance of the [Eric] Holder guidelines before too long that would roll back the [John] Ashcroft and Mukasey provisions. If the administration is seriously concerned about civil liberties reforms, this is a prime opportunity to deliver on that,” Sobel said.

Readers' Comments (35)

I hope the FBI DOES strike fear in the hearts of "evil-doers" They would not be afraid unless they have something to be worried about, like harboring or assisting TERRORIST activity! This has happened just recently in the case of an alleged Terrorist and his Imam. Be afraid, if you are plotting against this country! You will be caught and punished!

I hope the FBI DOES strike fear in the hearts of "evil-doers" They would not be afraid unless they have something to be worried about, like harboring or assisting TERRORIST activity! This has happened just recently in the case of an alleged Terrorist and his Imam. Be afraid, if you are plotting against this country! You will be caught and punished!

I hope the FBI DOES strike fear in the hearts of "evil-doers" They would not be afraid unless they have something to be worried about, like harboring or assisting TERRORIST activity! This has happened just recently in the case of an alleged Terrorist and his Imam. Be afraid, if you are plotting against this country! You will be caught and punished!

But the leftist in the White House wants to make sure that before any such punishment takes place, the terrorists have the benefit of the our Constitutional rights as well as ACLU-type attorneys.

It is a sad day when there are those among us who applaud the destruction of our civil liberties, people would rather give into their fears than celebrate and defend the rights that made this country great. As FDR once said, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself".

Let us be honest please. Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a violent, hateful belief that calls for the murder of non-believers. Immigration should be halted from all muslim countries to protect this great country. I understand that not all are violent, but why take the risk. Muslims want respect and they should get it, just in another muslim country where their hate is legal. The ACLU is there to protect people who wish to do America harm. They jump to the defense on the worst of mankind. The ACLU is just like other terrorist, they too hate this country and do their best to make sure other anti-American groups are free to destroy what they can in this country.

It is a sad day when there are those among us who applaud the destruction of our civil liberties, people would rather give into their fears than celebrate and defend the rights that made this country great. As FDR once said, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself".

We live in a different world than FDR did. Most muslims aren't terrorists, but most terrorists are muslim. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. I would rather have an FBI agent sitting in the pew beside me at Church rather than have a terrorist sit down beside me. If they aren't doing anything wrong then they have nothing to worry about. It's a sad day when our kids can't pray in schools, but our prisoners can in our detention facilities. We wouldn't want to deny them.

Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy group. “The concerns of the Muslim community are over the use of informants that are going into mosques, sometimes without the knowledge of the leadership of the mosque. The concern many feel is over attending mosque services for the fear the FBI might be looking over their shoulder.”

Funny! My church welcomes everyone to come and participate. In fact, I don't know of any Christian or Jewish congregation that has any fear of being singled out through FBI profiling. I also can't remember the last time I heard of a Southern Baptist, or Pentacostal blowing anything up, or killing thousands of innocent people. If the shoe fits ..........

“I’d like to see us have the issuance of the [Eric] Holder guidelines before too long that would roll back the [John] Ashcroft and Mukasey provisions. If the administration is seriously concerned about civil liberties reforms, this is a prime opportunity to deliver on that,” Sobel said.

COUNT ON ERIC HOLDER TO FALL IN LINE...AND PROTECT THE SENSITIVE MUSLIM FEELINGS..WHEN REMINDED OF THE ATROCTIES COMMITTED AGAINST AMERICAN..JEWS..AND CHRISTIANS WORLD WIDE...

IF THEY BLOW US TO KINGDOM COME..........WE ALL DIED POLITICALLY CORRECT...RIGHT POLITICO??

REALITY CHECK....NOT ONE MUSLIM NATION ALLOWS ONE SINGLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. NOT ONE.

REALITY CHECK.........IF A MUSLIM BECOMES A CHRISTIAN..OR A JEW..THE PENALTY IS DEATH.

REALITY CHECK..........WHEN MUSLIMS TAKE OVER AN AREA..PEOPLE ARE GIVEN THE CHOICE OF CONVERTING TO ISLAM...OR BEING KILLED..STONED TO DEATH AS INFIDELS.

REALITY CHECK......SHIAA LAW...WHERE WOMEN ARE CONSIDERED..LEGALLY..ONE HALF THE WORTH OF ANY MALE..REGARDLESS OF AGE...IS PRACITICED IN EUROPE..AND PARTS OF THE USA. LIKE MICHIGAN.

REALITY CHECK.....HONOR KILLINGS..WHICH ARE LEGAL IN MOST MUSLIM NATIONS..AND OPENLY TOLERATED IN ALL OF THEM.............ALLOW MEN..TO KILL WOMEN FAMILY MEMBERS..WHO HAVE 'DISHONORED THEM"...THAT COULD BE DATING..NOT WEARING THE VEIL...IT HAS HAPPENED IN THE USA..MORE TIMES THAN WE KNOW...AND THE ONES WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD ON TAPE ARE HORRIBLE BEYOND BELIEFT...THE FAR LEFT...LIKE POLITICO..COVERS FOR THEM.

I MARCHED FOR ERA. WE ALMOST MADE IT. NOT A SINGLE MUSLIM SHOULD BE ADMITTED TO THE USA. NONE OF THEM..WHEN THEY ALLOW CHRISTIANS TO LIVE IN THEIR LANDS..AND WORSHIP FREELY. WHEN THEY REJECT SHIAA LAW. WHEN THEY FREE WOMEN FROM THE CHAINS OF SLAVERY. WHEN THEY HAVE STONED THE LAST CHILD FOR SPEAKING TO ANOTHER BOY FROM ANOTHER TRIBE...MAYBE.

MUSLIMS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE USA. WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE FORCED BACK INTO SLAVERY. IT SHOULD NOT BE CONDONED THAT WOMEN BE KILLED IN THE USA FOR TRIFFLING THINGS.

WHERE IS NOW? DO WE EVEN HAVE A WOMEN'S MOVEMENT ANYMORE? I AM FURIOUS THAT POLITICO...THE MALE CHAVENIST PIGS THAT THEY ARE..COULD EVEN PRINT SUCH AN ARTICLE.

AND ERIC HOLDER? HE DEFENDED AND GOT MARK RICH..MAYBE ONE OF THE MOST EVIL PEOPLE OF OUR TIME..PARDONED. HE WORKED TO FREE THE MURDEROUS PUERTO RICAN TERRORISTS...NINE YEARS AGO..AND THEY LEFT A TRAIL OF BLOOD..FOR THIRTY YEARS..FROM PUERTO RICO TO NEW YORK STATE.

THIS IS DISGUSTING. PROTECT WOMEN ABUSERS. LET AMERICANS DIE. DON'T TELL AMERICANS WHAT THEY WERE PLANNING......IN OUR OWN NATION. CAN ONE SAY "OUR OWN NATION" ANYMORE WITH BEING A RACIST?

AND HAS POLITICO CHECKED OUT THE ANTI-SEMITIC TEXT OF THE BOOKS USED IN ISLAMIC SCHOOLS..FUNDED BY USA TAXPAYERS..AND THE ANTI-WOMEN RANTS..WE PAY FOR IN THOSE SAME TEXTBOOKS? HOW ABOUT THE SAUDI SCHOOL..WHERE THE TEXTBOOKS DON'T BEAT AROUND THE "BUSH". THEY COME OUT AND CALL FOR THE KILLING OF JEWS..THAT HAS BEEN ON TV. AND STILL POLITCO CAN WRITE A TRULY HORRIBLE ARTICLE LIKE THIS..TRYING TO INTIMIDATE THE FBI INTO KEEPING SILENT? OR BRINGING AN EAGER ERIC HOLDER INTO THE FIGHT..ON THE SIDE OF THE IMMIGRANT MUSLIMS OF COURSE.

THIS ARTICLE IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW CLUELESS AND STUPID OF HUMAN NATURE......THE RADICAL FAR LEFT REALLY IS......

LAST NIGHT I READ A FAR LEFT WEB SITE FROM CA. THEY JUST HAD A TERRIBLE RACE RIOT IN THE CALIFORNIA PRISONS..WHICH WAS MOSTLY UNCOVERED IN THE "ELITE" PRESS..AND THE ISSUE OF RACE..NEVER MENTIONED OTHER THAN IN LOCAL -PAPERS...WAS THE SOLE CAUSE OF THE RIOT. THE MEXICAN MAFFIA..HAD APPARENTLY PUT OUT ANOTHER "FATWAH" FOR WANT OF A BETTER WORD...ON BLACKS IN PRISON..AND IN COMMUNITIES. (THE DOJ HAD A BIG BUST OF HISPANIC GANGS..AGAIN..IN LA..LAST WEEK. THAT TOO WENT UNCOVERED BY THE 'ELITES".)

So..all agree. Hispanic gangs attacked Black prisoners. And Holy Heck broke out for days. There were stabbing..beatings..over 200 people went to the hospital....some in critical condition...parts of the prison was burned...so this web site is outraged...

THEY ARE NOT MAD ABOUT THE RIOT. THEY ARE FURIOUS THAT NO WHITE PRISONERS WERE ATTACKED. NO PRISON GUARDS WERE ATTACKED. THE "BROTHERS OF THE BROWN AND BLACK BROTHERHOOD" ATTACKED EACH OTHER. ( I COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP. AND I WON'T GIVE THE WEB SITE BECAUSE THEY WILL COME AND KILL ME I WORRY..GOOGLE. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OUT THERE)

THE FAR LEFT WRITERS RANTED ABOUT HOW THESE PRISONERS...WERE ATTACKING EACH OTHER..WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE ATTACKED PRISON OFFICIALS AND THE WHITE PRISONERS..BECAUSE THAT IS WHO HELD THEM DOWN..IN SOCIETY. WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CORRUPT OUR NATION...THEY MAKE PEOPLE LIVE IN POVERTY..THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE EXTERMINATED. I COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP. IT IS SCARY ENOUGH JUST READING IT. AND I WHEN I READ IT...........I THOUGHT...........THIS SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE VAN JONES SOUNDED ON THOSE TAPE. AND HE HELD REAL POWER. HE STILL WORKS FOR JOHN PODESTA'S CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROSPERITY..WHICH IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS...SCARY. VERY SCARY.

I HAVE READ IN THE PAST...THAT White and Hispanic Gangs fight together in those hell hole prisons. There are not that many white prisoners..some Hell's Angels..Some Aryan Nation..but the left claims that most Christians are White Supremists.so who knows what they are...but they group together. DUH..HISPANIC PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE ARE CAUCASOIDS. THEY ARE THE SAME RACIAL GROUP. AMERICAN WHITE PEOPLE AND HISPANIC PEOPLE ARE ALSO INDIAN MIXED..MOST OF THEM. INDIANS ARE MONGOLOIDS. DUH. TO ME.............WHEN DRESSED ALIKE..SPEAKING WITH SAME ACCENT..SAME HAIR STYLES...I CANNOT TELL A HISPANIC FROM A "WHITE" PERSON FROM SPAIN.....BASQUE....SOUTHERN RUSSIA...ITALY..ARABIA...they all look the same to me...all part of the cursed "white" race.

AND OF COUSE..ALL OF US HAVE THE SAME BLOOD TYPES...THAT WHICH MAKES US "ALIVE". WE ARE ALL ALIKE. we can all exchange blood...when the right type...A,B.C. 0 and negative factors)....we are ultimately ..alike. the same.

I AM TRYING TO POINT OUT HOW IGNORANT THE FAR LEFT IS........IN TRYING TO BUILD THIS "BROTHERHOOD OF BROWN AND BLACK POWER". AND HOW SERIOUS THE CONFLICT BETWEEN BLACKS ANDHISPANICS IN CALIFORNIA IS..AND HOW THE PRESS..AND EVEN THE CABLE NEWS....NEVER COVER IT.

THOSE WHO WOULD COVER IT......ARE AGAIN LOST IN AFGHANISTAN. ALAS, BABYLON.

someone really should start trying to move all of the Black People in California out. I mean..that is human decency.

TODAY...FOUR MUSLIM TERRORISTS...OR WANNA BEE TERRORISTS..ARE BEING HELD IN THE USA TODAY!!!

REALITY CHECK...........TERRORIUST NUMBER ONE. IN NEW YORK. IN DENVER. HAD BOUGHT THE STUFF TO BUILD THE BOMB. HAD A TRUCK...REMEMBER THE TRUCK BOMBING IN LEBANON THAT KILLED OVER 200 MARINES? SAME TECHNIQUE. THE "ELITE" PRESS WILL CONNECT IT ONLY TO TIM MCVEIGH..HIM BEING WHITE AND ALL.

SEE WHY WE LOVE OUR CONGRESSMEN AND PRESIDENTS .........SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH???? THE MONEY IN THE TIDAL WAVE OF 'IMMIGRANTS' WHO FLOOD THE USA.EVERY DAY.......IS STUPENDOUS. AND THEY GET IT.

REALITY CHECK.........MUSLIM TERRORIST..IN TEXAS. HE HAD BEEN STOPPED ON A TRAFFIC CHARGE..BUT AS POLITCALLY CORRECT POLICE.......THEY NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ASK THE CITIZENSHIP STATUS OF ANYONEEEEEEEEEEEEE THEY STOP. THAT WOULD BE RACISTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT AND RACIALLLLLLLLLLL PROFILINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. SO THE TERRORIST..WHO DID NOT HAVE A LICENSE PROCEEDED..SOMEHOW SLIPPED UP...AND GOT PICKED UP FOR PLANNING TO BLOW UP THE BIGGEST BUILDING IN TEXAS. THE FBI..HAD TOLD HIM THE BOMBS HE MADE..WERE REAL..AND HE ACTUALLY PUSHED THE BUTTON TO BLOW THE BUILDING.

REALITY CHECK..THE ONE UP NORTH..WISCONSIN? MINNESOTA...NOW A HOT BED FOR MUSLIM TERRORISTS..AND VERY SOFT ON TERROR..INSIDE THE USA...FAR LEFT .SENATORS( THEY VOTED FOR THEM..THEY DESERVE THEM)...SAME THING. HE HAD THE BOMBS..BLEW THEM..BUT THE FBI HAD SUBSTITUED FAKE BOMBS.

AND THERE IS ANOTHER ONE.....AN AMERICAN ONE. BORN HERE. IDIOT. ALSO..CAUGHT WILLING TO PUSH THE BUTTON THAT WOULD BLOW..I THINK HE DID WANT TO BLOW A FEDERAL BUILDING TO PROTEST THE BOMBING IN AFGHANISTAN.

THAT IS NOW. WILL ERIC HOLDER STEP OUT TO MAKE ANYONE STOP EMBARRSING MULIMS..BY RECOUNTING TRUTHFUL ARTICLES ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE PLANNING OR TRYING OR DOING?

BET ON IT. HE IS ALL ABOUT "IMMIGRANT" RIGHTS. HE IS ALL ABOUT THE USA BEING A "NATION OF COWARDS". HE IS ALL ABOUT "RACIAL PROFILING". IS HE ALL ABOUT THE BROWN AND BLACK BROTHERHOOD OF POWER? AND AS A WOMAN..I FIND EVEN THAT NAME OFFENSIVE TO THE MAX.